Sausage
Mac & cheese
scrambled eggs and hash browns (direct repeat, but what are you gonna do?)
I am disappointed in the fact that I wont be seeing Steve Vai and Joe Satriani in the prime seats I had, due to surgery that day. I was introduced to them in high school, and it made me, vaguely, want to be a guitarist, but I never really followed that path. I do have other cool concerts coming up, though.
We were sitting at one of the comedy series shows and looking at the upcoming items in the Live at the Temple concert series, and just reading the description, without knowing anything about the artist, sounds like something I’d like, so I asked Shannon and she said sure and we bought tickets. As a note, I tried to get tickets for the tables, but several of them had a seat taken and a seat reserved for handicapped, so we couldn’t buy 2 seats at a table, leaving the handicapped seat by itself. So we ended up on the risers. For the most part, we ware on the younger side of those that attended, with a handful, much younger. It was stunningly good. Not knowing what to expect, as I did no research, and Shannon did a little.
We had dinner downstairs and headed up to the concert.
I think we were both stunned. She has an emotive and beautiful voice, and the backing band, including her husband, was quite talented. She moved between classics that she doesn’t want to be forgotten, the album they our touring on, which is based on William Blake poems and the various projects that she’s been involved in.
Of the strong performances over the course of the night, her performance of Blackbird, was fantastic (from another show).
So I think I’ve seen the movie, but judging by my wife reminding me that we saw another show already (coming to Ames), I have further doubts of my already knowingly terrible memory. I did definitely recognize the songs. The lead for our performance was quite spectacular. The whole performance was very nice.
With Amigo the Devil plus Gen and the Degenerates.
I took today off cause I decided I’m to old to work the next day after a concert. I thought about getting up when my alarm went off, but turned it off instead and slept for another hour and half.
We met up with Jenny and Nathan at Either / Or and had dinner. Afterwards I went off with Jenny and Nathan and Shannon headed home.
The venue, itself, which I haven’t been to in a while (Fall Out Boy maybe?), is definitely improved and more modern. I was reminded in the bathroom of how terrible it was before the remodel. The ceiling is covered in sound dampening tiles, which will help reduce the escape of sound, which made the neighbors a bit annoyed. A good refresh and I’m looking to go to more shows there.
The show opened up with Gen and the Degenerates, which, was not for me. I don’t want to rule them out yet, but I’ll listen to some of there music. Second was Amigo the Devil, which after a song that we didn’t get, immediately was definitely for me. Enough so, that I went to go get a shirt, even after my first exposure. Unfortunately, they didn’t have anything close to my size, so I ended up with a bumper sticker. I added a bunch of the music to my library to parse and dive into.
Flogging Molly, my first time seeing them, came on and just put on a solid fast paced show. It was quite fun, energetic and even overrode the general body complaints that the rest of me started to feed back. Came away with a shirt, even after an explicit discussion from Shannon that I really need to filter out some t-shirts as they are taking up an entire closet and are packed in.
Quite a good time. Humor, good advice and general good times.
Good show.
While it’s a couple of weeks after, it still lingers a bit in my thoughts. This was enjoyable and the performance were quite good. I’d definitely see it again.
We had dinner for the first time in a long time at Centro. The food was as expected, service was attentive, the big thing that just stuck in my craw was the person reloading the warming pan of bread to deliver to tables brought it out in a large plastic bag and dumped into the warming pan. This happened at least twice while we were dining. This seems like a thing where you would bring it out in the pan and swap the pan. The plastic bag just doesn’t seem to match the quality they are trying to put forward.
So this was time we have seen things. They tour every year apparently. While driving with Nathan yesterday, to Decorah, this came up that it was a bit better with the guy that passed away earlier this year. But even so, we enjoyed it, with the exclusion of the old man that kept playing with his phone, receiving texts and turning on his flashlight on his phone several times for no apparent reason.
The performers were quite good, I look forward to going to this again next year.
After recently seeing John Cleese, this just made sense. To see this movie, which I have heard dozens of time and also many dozens of times, in a theater, with a bunch of other fans, happy to quote along and sing along and laugh along was quite a change in experience. I do regret forgetting my coconuts (official Spamalot merch), but fun was had all around.
The mixture of the music and the play worked, though it left me thinking Was this to short of a play that felt done, but was added music to make it longer? The lighting left me thinking on the purpose, where several things were semi-hidden in the shadows while others were bright, but there was a general “sad” darkness about, which perhaps indicates the risk of the depression coming and there. It was enjoyable, and left me thinking.
